I also don't think that the metric means much, but for the record, there are 4 million patients in an openEHR server (v0.95) in Australia, some thousands (ultimate design vlume 1,000,000 EHRs) in the Netherlands, and probably some thousands in Brazil - that I know directly about. None of these products are open source, but the data and interfaces are completely open.
Tim Cook wrote: > Hi Ignacio, > > On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:16 -0600, Ignacio Valdes wrote: > >> I will re-phrase. Can anyone tell me how many actual patients does >> anyone have in any system that conforms to the OpenEHR specification >> that is FOSS licensed? >> >> -- IV >> > > Re-phasing isn't necessary. I think that everyone understood your > question. The problem is that your metric is nonsensical. > > As a US veteran I have no choice in which EMR my records are stored. > Nor does the physician have a choice in which application they use. So > you can measure the number of patient records in VistA. But really is > that any measure of it's validity? No it isn't. It is mandated by the > organization not via some engineering principles but by simple > availability. > > While I understand that you haven't had time to study the openEHR specs. > I do believe that it is incumbent upon you as the leader of the AMIA > OSWG to do so or appoint students/academics to do so. > > Even some FOSS application developers have called for a common data > model. What they do not yet realize is that what they really want in a > common information model. openEHR represents this requirement. But > when they look at it they want something simpler. However, as Albert > Einstein said; Keep everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. > > Healthcare information is complex. Therefore the (openEHR) information > model is necessarily complex to some extent. You will either study and > embrace it or you will be a victim of the constantly evolving "data > model" of other systems that are never inter-operable. > > > Cheers, > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > -- *Thomas Beale Chief Technology Officer, Ocean Informatics <http://www.oceaninformatics.com/>* Chair Architectural Review Board, /open/EHR Foundation <http://www.openehr.org/> Honorary Research Fellow, University College London <http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/> * *
